Doctors do not want to sign for cannabis exemptions.
Most Doctors will not prescribe natural health products that have not gone through clinical double blind testing and been listed as “Approved” drugs under the Foods and Drugs Act. This lack of clinical testing puts Doctors in an uncomfortable position when approached by a patient whom wishes to legally consume cannabis for theroputic purposes. I would argue that this creates an unconstitutional barrier to accessing cannabis for legal use. Health Canada is ran by bureaucrat pharmacists whom do not want cannabis used as medication because it is a plant and can not be patented, and therefore they can not make any money from it. Cannabis could replace 10-20% of pharmasutical medications, and that could take away from shareholder dividends. Health Canada is the biggest criminal drug cartel in Canada. They are interested in profits and not our health. Shame on them.
Institutionalized Idiocy Lecture MP3
http://www.archive.org/download/InstitutionalizedIdiocy/ed_Institutionalized_Idiocy_64kb.mp3
Here is a good write up of our present state of medical idiocy taken from the Toronto Hemp Company website. I could not have said it any better.
My doctor won't sign the application forms for my Health Canada MMAR license, what can I do?
As well as being one of our most frequently asked questions, this question has become, by far, the most frustrating one. After years of struggle and stress, after so many court cases, police raids, and 'commissions of inquiry,' after so much media attention, research, education, cooperation and lip service from some doctors, politicians and agencies, and after watching our friends and loved ones suffer and even prematurely leave this earth for no good reason, the world has been brainwashed into thinking that things are a lot better here than they were before. Sadly this interpretation overlooks the facts - overlooks the fact that our government is a useless bureaucratic mess, a dinosaur of 'democracy,' whose only apparent ability is to actually accomplish SO LITTLE while spending and wasting so much. Our system creates and fosters futility, corruption, pessimism and complacency - among our public servants and the Canadian general public.
So we've got this situation now in which there was a proposed decriminalization bill which in fact was a horribly counter-productive, thinly-veiled tool of the drug war; a government-contracted mineshaft monopoly of tainted and overpriced pot, and a medical marijuana program that is supposed to help sick people access and legally possess Cannabis medicine which in fact is hugely restricted and ineffective primarily because doctors still won't cooperate.
Yes, we are pissed off, and have every right to be! In reality, we realize that there is no valid law against marijuana possession in Canada, it was struck down in 2001 (effective from 1995 when the CDSA was enacted). The declaration of invalidity was suspended for a year from July 2000 to allow the government time to implement an adequate program of medical exemption and access in order to save the law. Nobody in their right mind would say that the system we are suffering under is adequate, and therefore the law is dead. But our courts are as useless as our leaders - constantly contradicting themselves and allowing our joke of a government to repeatedly shrug off every court order. Even the Supreme Court of Canada has helped to screw this up, with a very closely split decision that should have declared the laws completely unconstituational but somehow did not.
And so we trudge on, doing our best to endure the disservice of a system that's supposed to be OURS, by us and for us, that's somehow 'us against them' while we are both the 'us' and the 'them.' And we'll continue to fight for the rights of Canadians who simply want the freedom to choose their own medicine, whether god-given herb or MD-given freak of nature.
Sorry for the rant, but it's a prelude to the frustrating answer, which is that we are unable to recommend doctors, especially specialists, who are willing to consider helping with your application for an MMAR exemption, as much as we wish we could. A couple rays of hope were recently provided by our friends the Kubbys on the west coast, and the Canadian Medical Protective Agency (Doctor's insuring body), which may or may not be helpful in your case. Aside from that, it is imporant to note that people ask us this question virtually every day - yours is not an isolated situation but instead a massive and widespread injustice - and something's got to give!
Get a letter to your Doctor and the CMPA Doctors Release from Liability form here: http://www.torontohemp.com/doctorletter.htm
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RUN FROM THE CURE: A Film By Christian Laurette
After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of T.H.C.) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge, curing and controlling literally hundreds of people's illnesses... but when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine - leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments - and leaving Rick with unconsitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana!
Canada is in the middle of a CANCER EPIDEMIC! Meet the people who were not allowed to testify on Rick's behalf at the Supreme Court of Canada's Infamous Rick Simpson Trial on September 10, 2007... INCLUDING A MAN WHO WAS CURED OF TERMINAL CANCER USING HEMP OIL!
Download and watch Run from the Cure!
http://www.phoenixtearsmovie.com/
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Dr. Harold Kalant, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at the University of Toronto is an expert witness in courts and he has testified: "Studies and anecdotal histories also suggest that THC works to relieve pain and muscle spasms. Cannabinoids in general are good analgesics. According to Dr. Kalant, there have been no recorded deaths from the consumption of marihuana alone. Consumption of marihuana is relatively harmless compared to the so-called hard drugs and including tobacco and alcohol and there is no "hard evidence" that even longterm use can lead to irreversible physical or psychological damage." R. v. Krieger, 2000
"Marijuana is the safest therapeutically active substance known to man... safer than many foods we commonly consume." DEA Judge Francis L. Young, Sept. 6, 1988
"After carefully monitoring the literature for more than two decades, we have concluded that the only well-confirmed deleterious physical effect of marihuana is harm to the pulmonary system." Grinspoon M.D., James B. Bakalar,
Medical Marijuana has been in use for thousands of years, and in spite of substantial efforts to find adverse effects, it remains the safest medication available for RBS. There has never been a single known case of lethal overdose. The ratio of lethal to effective dose for medical marijuana is estimated to be as 40,000 to 1. By comparison, the ratio is 3-50 to 1 for secobarbital and 4-10 to 1 for alcohol.(11)
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/MedicalMarijuana6A.HTML
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Therapeutic Uses of Marijuana
http://www.medicalmarijuanainformation.com/therapeuticuses/patientGroupsIntro.php
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US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507/fulltext.html
The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative deseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention.
Claim:
1. A method of treating diseases caused by oxidative stress, comprising
administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid that has substantially no binding to the NMDA receptor to a subject who has a
disease caused by oxidative stress.
